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STATE SUMMARY 2006 |
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UTAH
State Contact:
Ms. Debra Spielmaker
Utah Agriclture in the Classroom
2315 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-2315 |
Phone: (435) 213-5562
Fax: (435) 797-4002
E-mail: debra.spielmaker@usu.edu
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Major projects accomplished this year
- Online Course for K-6 teachers:
105 teachers enrolled in our online course this year reaching 3,150 students with 30 hours of instruction about agriculture as it relates to state core curriculum.
- Seven social studies Teacher Academys were conducted this past year involving 140 teachers with agricultural instruction to be used in their classroom.
- Student teachers (600) were introduced to AITC at six state universities this year.
- Agricultural Teacher Resource Center (TRC):
We launched an e-store to our website allowing teachers to order items online which expanded the teacher resource center both in teacher use and the resources offered. Twenty-five resources including books, videos, posters, bulletin boards, and other materials were added to the resource center. This year the TRC has completed 309 teacher orders totaling $16,603.
- 205 K-12 Social Studies teachers received training with AITC materials.
- Two Teacher Academy CDs for Social Studies were developed (K-6) & (7-12).
- Three issues of the Bulletin, teacher newsletter
- Deseret News Newspapers in Education Publication (80,000 copies sent to students statewide)
- Farm Field Day instructional materials for 500 teachers, statewide
- Four issues of the e-zine, AgroWorld, (for secondary teachers) was published. 462 Utah teachers receive this bimonthly publication. An index was created on the AgroWorld website for back issues
- A Utah teacher, Alzina Barnhill, was selected as the National AITC Teacher of the Year.
- The Growing a Nation, History of American Agriculture CD was completed. The GaN website was created along with several resources including a great photo gallery.
Major impacts the program had this year
- This year 210,000 students were taught with AITC-created and statewide mandatory instructional units in science (4th grade soils, 5th grade heredity, 6th grade microorganisms, K-6 nutrition, Technology, Life and Careers (7th grade).
- We held a Summer Agricultural Institute for teachers who teach the Technology, Life and Careers required state curriculum. Over 100 teachers participated. They will reach 12,000 students with AITC resources as part of the credit requirements for the Institute.
- 105 teachers enrolled in our online course in 2005. Each teacher reaches at least 25 students with 28 hours of classroom instruction to meet course requirements.
- 30% of Utah schools have an AITC teacher contact that receives the AITC newsletter.
- 10,000 students were reached with classroom materials (books, videos, etc.) from our resource center.
- Traffic to our website increased by 150%. (480,114 have accessed our website resources).
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